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I am fairly new to UO (2 months) and have never had a house before.

I bought a house placement tool and went to an area where there were other
houses and in an open area. I was wanted to see how the thing worked, but
not build a house yet. I double clicked on the placement tool and nothing
happened.

What am I doing wrong? I have money in the bank, over 2M in 100k checks.

Andrea
 
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"Andrea2" <andrea6192001nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I am fairly new to UO (2 months) and have never had a house before.
>
> I bought a house placement tool and went to an area where there were other
> houses and in an open area. I was wanted to see how the thing worked, but
> not build a house yet. I double clicked on the placement tool and nothing
> happened.
>
> What am I doing wrong? I have money in the bank, over 2M in 100k checks.
>
> Andrea
>
> not sure what you are doing wrong, but i would like to know how you have
> accumulated that much gold that quickly.... (i promise i wont tell) :)

>
 
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I just tried it again, it still don't work.

As to the gold, I make the rounds of the dungeons. I can easily make 100k in
an hour. Since I'm confined to bed for the duration of my pregnancy, I don't
have much else to do.

Andrea

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>>I am fairly new to UO (2 months) and have never had a house before.
>>
>> I bought a house placement tool and went to an area where there were
>> other houses and in an open area. I was wanted to see how the thing
>> worked, but not build a house yet. I double clicked on the placement tool
>> and nothing happened.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? I have money in the bank, over 2M in 100k checks.
>>
>> Andrea
>>
>> not sure what you are doing wrong, but i would like to know how you have
>> accumulated that much gold that quickly.... (i promise i wont tell) :)
>
>>
>
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:26:54 -0800, "Andrea2"
<andrea6192001nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I am fairly new to UO (2 months) and have never had a house before.
>
>I bought a house placement tool and went to an area where there were other
>houses and in an open area. I was wanted to see how the thing worked, but
>not build a house yet. I double clicked on the placement tool and nothing
>happened.
>
>What am I doing wrong? I have money in the bank, over 2M in 100k checks.

If you look around you'll probably see a sign on a post that reads,
"This area reserved by OSI" Most land still open is like that; else
someone else would have built there before you.

Most spots have been taken by players and are no longer available. If
they can't build a house there on their main account they open a 2nd
account to do the same. The Samurai Empire lands will include new
housing lands so you may be able to get in on the land rush there.
Also spots open up on the Felucca shard periodically (people don't
like to place there because of the PvP+ elements).

If you're really desperate for a house go on eBay and buy one there.
You can pick up a small for ~$50 now I think. The prices have come
back down.
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Andrea2 wrote:
> I am fairly new to UO (2 months) and have never had a house before.
>
> I bought a house placement tool and went to an area where there were other
> houses and in an open area. I was wanted to see how the thing worked, but
> not build a house yet. I double clicked on the placement tool and nothing
> happened.
>
> What am I doing wrong? I have money in the bank, over 2M in 100k checks.

Nothing. Every time there is land expansion or housing patch or both the
server gets overloaded.

What you have to do is double click the house placement tool and wait
5-30 minutes for the menu to appear.
 
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You were right, after I double clicked I waited 4 minutes and got the menu.

Thanks

Andrea

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> Nothing. Every time there is land expansion or housing patch or both the
> server gets overloaded.
>
> What you have to do is double click the house placement tool and wait 5-30
> minutes for the menu to appear.
 
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:26:44 -0800, "Andrea2"
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>You were right, after I double clicked I waited 4 minutes and got the menu.
>
>Thanks

So you got your house?

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>>I am fairly new to UO (2 months) and have never had a house before.
>>
>> I bought a house placement tool and went to an area where there were
>> other houses and in an open area. I was wanted to see how the thing
>> worked, but not build a house yet. I double clicked on the placement tool
>> and nothing happened.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? I have money in the bank, over 2M in 100k checks.
>>
>> Andrea
>>
>> not sure what you are doing wrong, but i would like to know how you have
>> accumulated that much gold that quickly.... (i promise i wont tell) :)

Same here. I've been at it about 16 months now and I have yet to see 1/3 of
that amount in my bank box.

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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:17:06 -0500, "Sticky_314" <sticky_314@yahoo.com>
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>>>I am fairly new to UO (2 months) and have never had a house before.
>>>
>>> I bought a house placement tool and went to an area where there were
>>> other houses and in an open area. I was wanted to see how the thing
>>> worked, but not build a house yet. I double clicked on the placement tool
>>> and nothing happened.
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong? I have money in the bank, over 2M in 100k checks.
>>>
>>> Andrea
>>>
>>> not sure what you are doing wrong, but i would like to know how you have
>>> accumulated that much gold that quickly.... (i promise i wont tell) :)
>
>Same here. I've been at it about 16 months now and I have yet to see 1/3 of
>that amount in my bank box.

Well, what are you hunting? In the last couple weeks I've been developing
an Armsman and only worried about what I needed to attack to gain skill
not money. Playing perhaps 45-60 minutes a day and I've gotten about 500K
in the bank right now after expenses. Now that he's getting to a decent
skill level I can go hunt more profitable stuff.

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"Paul - Catskills" <rasputin01@adelphia.net.net> wrote in message
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> "Andrea2" <andrea6192001nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>I am fairly new to UO (2 months) and have never had a house before.
>>
>> I bought a house placement tool and went to an area where there were
>> other houses and in an open area. I was wanted to see how the thing
>> worked, but not build a house yet. I double clicked on the placement tool
>> and nothing happened.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? I have money in the bank, over 2M in 100k checks.
>>
>> Andrea
>>
>> not sure what you are doing wrong, but i would like to know how you have
>> accumulated that much gold that quickly.... (i promise i wont tell) :)
>
It depends what you're hunting - for instance, spending an hour whacking
dragons and daemons at the fire temple usually nets me about 3-400k an hour.
I get similar results going after the ones in Wind. You can usually sell the
faction silver you get from the daemons there for about 10gp per 1sp - and
you don't have to be in a faction to get it.(Fel shard - not sure about
Tram's Wind)

For a reasonably good score, there's always the ancient lich in Kahldun - I
was there on Europa about a month ago (Again, Fel only - don't think Kahldun
exists on Tram.).
The Zealots there drop reasonable amounts, too - you're looking at about
1000gp a minute with them. Don't bother with those 'cursed' idiots, or the 4
main characters - you'll be lucky to get 300gp a time off them.
(side question - does anyone know if the books they drop are counted as
rares, or are they just trivia?).
I haven't tried the trick chests there - I don't have treasure hunting or
thievery skills- but I hear there's a fair amount of gold in them most of
the time.

Then, there's always the ancient wyrm, balrons and paragons...

Have a bag of sending and loads of powder with you, room in your bank box,
and a decent luck suit on, and it's not too hard to get to those figures.

Of course, for the really big money, you need to find another player who
hasn't insured anything, is loaded to overflowing with gold, and is worse at
PvP than you are, but I haven't met anyone worse at it than me yet...
 
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Sticky_314 wrote:

>>>What am I doing wrong? I have money in the bank, over 2M in 100k checks.
>>>
>>>Andrea
>>>
>>>not sure what you are doing wrong, but i would like to know how you have
>>>accumulated that much gold that quickly.... (i promise i wont tell) :)
>
>
> Same here. I've been at it about 16 months now and I have yet to see 1/3 of
> that amount in my bank box.

IMHO that is one of the good things about UO. Everyone can define their
own goal and what sucess in game means to them. Some people only care
about getting GM this or that, some tie their fun to a big house, others
may do their bank account or the monsters they have killed.
 

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> If you look around you'll probably see a sign on a post that reads,
> "This area reserved by OSI" Most land still open is like that; else
> someone else would have built there before you.
>
> Most spots have been taken by players and are no longer available. If
> they can't build a house there on their main account they open a 2nd
> account to do the same. The Samurai Empire lands will include new
> housing lands so you may be able to get in on the land rush there.
> Also spots open up on the Felucca shard periodically (people don't
> like to place there because of the PvP+ elements).
>
> If you're really desperate for a house go on eBay and buy one there.
> You can pick up a small for ~$50 now I think. The prices have come
> back down.
> --

If Europa's anything to go by (and I think it's still one of the busiest
shards), ther are now plenty of small spots to be had in the jungle out on
the isles. As long as you don't expect an 18*18, I think a patient search
would be rewarded :)

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I got a small house in the Tokuno Islands. It is on Homare-Jima near the
moongate and next to the road.

Being on the road, it will ge good for vendors as well as a house.

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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 23:46:17 -0800, "Andrea2"
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>I got a small house in the Tokuno Islands. It is on Homare-Jima near the
>moongate and next to the road.
>
>Being on the road, it will ge good for vendors as well as a house.
>
>Andrea
>

Congratulations!

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"Andrea2" <andrea6192001nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I got a small house in the Tokuno Islands. It is on Homare-Jima near the
>moongate and next to the road.
>
>Being on the road, it will ge good for vendors as well as a house.

Given the dangerous spawn in the area... Probably not. (Assuming
your house remains visible among the other houses. That area is (or
at least was in the Beta) extremely poorly designed.)

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I like the spawn, plenty of prey for my Mage and Paladin. Also those Ronin,
etc. carry lots of gold and other loot.

Andrea

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> Given the dangerous spawn in the area... Probably not. (Assuming
> your house remains visible among the other houses. That area is (or
> at least was in the Beta) extremely poorly designed.)
>
> D.
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> Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.
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> -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
> Oct 5th, 2004 JDL